"We lived with censorship for many years in Soviet times. Now we're afraid that we are seeing censorship in post-Soviet Russia. It's a big danger."

- Elena Gremina, director of Teatr.doc

As Sarah Rainsford reported for the BBC (see below), Teatr.doc has organized in Moscow a reading by actors, poets and directors of extracts from classic works of Russian literature that were once banned as an act of solidarity with those experiencing a modern-day censorship scandal, in Siberia: the banning of a production of the Wagner opera Tannhauser for "offending religious believers". The performance included work by poets such as Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam who died in Stalin's Gulag camps.